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Iudgment vs Sathyan Pillai & Anr
2021 Latest Caselaw 5004 Ker

Citation : 2021 Latest Caselaw 5004 Ker
Judgement Date : 11 February, 2021

Kerala High Court
Iudgment vs Sathyan Pillai & Anr on 11 February, 2021
            IN THE HIGH         COI'RT OF KERAI,A   AT ERNAICUIIA}4
                                     PRESET.iIT

             THE HONOI'RABLE MR.J('STTCE N.A}IIL             KUMAR

THURSDAY' THE 11TE DAY OF E:EBRUARY 2O2L                 /   2Zt*o !acHA,L942

                            RSA.No.1022 OF 2019
   AGAINST THE JI'DGMET.IT AI{D DECREE IN AS 63/20L7 OF                ST'B
                 coItRT AT PttNALItR, KOLLAM.
    AGAITiIST   TEE     .TUDGMENT AI{D DECREE ITi[ Og L7O/2OO9        OE
                          MTNSIFF COIIRT, PUNALUR


APPELI,AIflT/APPELI,AI{T / PLAIIflI TE'F   :


                MT'RAIEEDB.ARJAI\T   PILLAI,
                AGED 68 YE:ARS
                s/o.         pIrrr.AI, ldAlnt BEAVA!{ (PUIHENVEEDU}
                       SAT.IKARA
                I4ATERA MIRI, KLETAVAJ,OOR VTLLAGE, pItNALItR
                TAII'K.
                BY ADVS.
                SRI.AUGUSTTNE .TOSEPB
                sRr.K.s.RocKEy
                SRI . TONY AUGUSTTNE
                SRI.GEORGE RENOY
                SRI. S.DILEEP

RESPO}TDEI{TS /RESPONDE}ITS./DEFENDANTS :

       1        SATEYAI{ prtr,Al ,S/O @pAr,A prLr,AI, AGED 67 ,
                TETTNDILAZEIKATEU PIIIHEN \ZEEDU, t4ATgRA MIIRI,
                KARAVATOOR VILLAGE, PINALUR TALttK - 691 333

       2        SHEEI,A SATHYAI{,
                w/o.sATEYeI\r PILLAT,AGED 60 ,
                TEIIIDILAZEIKATEU PUTEEN VEEDU, MATERA MtRr,
                KARAVATOOR VTLLAGE, pIrNALttR TAttrK. - 591 333

                R1-2 BY ADV. SRI.GEORGE
                VARGHE SE   (   PERI'MPALLIKATIYIL   )
                R1-2 BY ADV. SRI.A.R.DITEEP
 RSA.No.1022 OF 2019

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               R1-2 BY ADV. SRI . P. iTOE PAUL
                                    ''. G. GEORGE
               R1-2 BY ADV. SRI . RA.'AN
               R1-2 BY ADV. SRI.MAI.IU SRINATE
     TEIS     REGUI,AR SECOND APPEJAI, EAVING BEEN FINAI,LY EEARD
oN LL.O2.2O2L, THE       COITRT ON TEE SAME DAY DELr\TERED THE
FOLTOIIING:
 RSA.No.1022 OF 2019

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                        IUDGMENT
       Dated this the Lltr day of Febmary 2O2t
      I.A.No.L of 202L, a compromise under Order     )fiIII
Rule 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure, is filed by both the

appellant and respondents.

     2.   The suit was flled by the appellant against the
respondents    for permanent prohibitory injunction
restraining them from taking possession of plaint        B

schedule pathway and enclosing        it with a gate and
mandatory injunction directing them to remove the gate
put up by them since the institution of the suit.

     3.   The respondents who are the defendants filed a
written statement along with a counter claim.
     4.   The Trial Court, by judgment dated 13.09.2017

dismissed the suit filed by the appellant/plaintiff and
allowed the counter claim raised by                    the
respondents/defendants. The decree in both the suit and

counter claim were taken in appeal by                  the
       RSA.No.LO22 OF 2019


                               ..4..


  appellant/plaintiff before sub court, punalur. The
                                                      sub
  Court, Punalur by judgment dated 1,7.07.201g
                                                dismissed
  A.s.No.63     of z0t7 confirming the decree of the Trial
  Court.

          5.
           During the pendency of this appear, both the
  parties negotiated the matter out of court and
                                                     an
 amicable settlement was arrived         at.    The parties have
 resolved their dispute, in accordance with the terms
                                                      and
 stipulations contained in the compromise. Recording
                                                      the
 compromise, this RSA stands disposed of. The terms
                                                                 of
 the compromise and the plan appended thereto will form
 part of the decree.

         Pending interlocutory applications,          if any, stand
closed. This Second Appeal is disposed of accordingly.



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                                       NANIL KUI\,IAR
                                          JUDGE
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                    BEFORE THE HONOURABLE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT
                                    ERNAKULAM

                                        R.S.A.No. LO22 of 2019


             Muraleedharan Pillai                                         : Appellant

                                                  Vs.

             Sathyan Pillai & anr                                         : Respondents

                                                  MEMO


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                   Above ctPPLql         challenging the judgments and decrees of the
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             courts below restraining the appellant to use the only pathway to his
 '           house through the plaint 'B' schedule pr:operty. Now the parties have
       .

. settled the issue out of court and acc<trdingly documents being executed between the appellant and respondents about the right of pathway .c throuqh the'B' schedule ProPertY.

In the above circumstances it is prayed that the above R.S.A may .:. be dismissed as not Pressed Dated this the 14th day of January, 202-I a ( tA \, .,Ir-rlY\/[4?h AuguStine JosePh ' Counsel for the aPPellant \"' Pre.on z L4.OL.2O2I BEFORE THE HON'BLE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM R.S.A.No . Llzzof 2O19

Appellant :

Muraleedharan Pillai

Respondents:

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f 4t'\a'at Augustine Joseph (A-384) S.Dileep (D-76) K.S.Rockey (R-937) Tony Augustine T-306 & George Renoy (G-574)

Counsel for the appellant a?




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       BEFORE THE HONOURABLE HIGH COURT OF                   KEMLA AT ERNAKULAM

                                               i
                               I.A.No.         l        of   202L
                                                   In

                               R.S.A.No.           L022 of 2019



o   Muraleedharan Pillai                                  Petitioner/Appellant

                                               Vs

    Sathyan Pillai & Another                              Respondents/ Respondents



COMPROMISE PETITION FILED UNDER ORDER }XIII RULE 2 READ WITH SECTION 151 OF THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 1908

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         BEFORE THE HONOUMBLE HIGH COURT OF                    KEMLA AT ERNAKUI.AM


                               I.A.No. I\                of   2021
                                                In

R.S.A.No. L022 of 2019

Muraleedharan Pillai : Petitioner/Appellant

Vs o Sathyan Pillai& Another : Respondents/ Respondents

INDEX Sl. CONTENTS Pages No. Nos.

1. Compromise Petition 1-5

2. oo[i'.r'l - Plan prepared by Mr. Abhilash T. 6

Dated this the 27th day of January , 2021.

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Counsel for the respondents/respondents BEFORE THE HONOUMBLE HIGH COURT OF KEMLA AT ERNAKUI.AM

I.A.No. \ ot 2o2L In

R.S.A.No. L022 of 2019

Petitioner/Appel la nt:

Muraleedharan Pillai, S/o Sankara Pillai, Ivlanu Bhavan(Puthenveedu), lviathra Muri, Karavaloor Village, Punalur Taluk o Respondents/ Respondents :

1. Sathyan Pillai, aged 60 years, S/o Gopala Pilai, Thundilazhikathu Puthen Veedu, Mathra Muri, Mathra P.O., Karavaloor Village, Punalur Taluk - 691 333

2. Sheela Sathyan, aged 54 years, Wo Sathyan Pillai, Thundilazhikathu Puthen Veedu, Mathra Muri, Mathra P.O., Karavaloor Village, Punalur Taluk - 691 333

COMPROMISE PETMON FILED UNDER ORDER )CfiII RULE? READ WITH SECNON 151 OF THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 1908

Petitioner and respondents herein are the Appellant and Respondents respectively in the above appeal. The above appeal arises out of the judgment dated L7.07.20L9 in A.S.No.63lL7 on the file of the Couft of Subordinate Judge, Punalur which in turn,arises out of the judgment dated L3.Og.2Ot7 in O. S. No. 170/2009 on the file of the Munsiffs Coutt, Punalur.

The said suit was filed by the petitioner herein against the respondents herein for perpetual prohibitory injunction restraining them from taking possession of B Schedule pathway and enclosing it with a gate and mandatory injunction directing them to remove the gate put up by them since the institution of the suit.

The defendants in the suit, who are the respondents herein entered appearance and filed a written statement along with a counter claim. In the counter claim, the defendants sought for declaration of title and possession o over the counter claim schedule item No. 1 and right of way over counter claim schedule item No. 2 pathway and an injunction against the counter

claim defendant/plaintiff against trespass over item 1 & 2 and also putting up fencing along with the eastern and western boundaries thereof. The Trial o Court vide its judgment dated 13.09.2017, dismissed the suit filed by the petitioner/plaintiff and allowed the counter claim raised by the

respondents/defendants. The decree in both the suit and counter claim were carried in Appeal by the petitioner/plaintiff before the Sub Couft, Punalur. The Sub Couft, Punalur vide its judgment dated t7.07.20L9 dismissed AS No. 631L7 confirming the decree and judgment of the Trial Court. The petitioner

/plaintiff carried the matter in Appeal before this Honourable Court.

During the pendency of the above appeal, at the interuention of well wishers and relatives, the parties herein negotiated the matter for an amicable settlement of the dispute which have arises for consideration in the above litigation and consequently the pafties entered into an agreement whereby they have resolved the matter in dispute. Thus the pafties have resolved and thus agreed that the appeal may be disposed of on the following

terms;

i) That the petitioner and respondents (plaintiff and defendants respectively in the suit) mutually agree to put up a gate at the entrance of the pathway leading to their respective propefties A ase ' rx/.57 \r from Mathra Junction - Nedumala Junction Road. The petitioner herein will bear the expenses for putting up the said gate and both the parties agree to keep one key each in his /her custody of any lock , if put in the gate. Both the parties agree that none of them will make any inconvenience or hindrance to the other for their easy ingress and egress through the pathway to their respective propefties. The putting up of the gate will be done within one month from the date of decree to be passed on the basis of this Compromise Petition.

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ii) The petitioner and his successors-in-interest are permitted to use as pathway an extent of 3 cents of property through the south eastern poftion of the property of the respondents having a length of 43.40 meters and width of 2.70 meters in I

continuation of the pathway having a width of 4.50 meters starting from the western Mathra Junction - Nedumala Junction

Road as specifically earmarkedin the plan appended to this Agreement. The plan prepared by Mr. Abhilash T., Registered I Engineer Grade A, Reg.No. E.10160/19/EA368ZKLM, Department of Urban Affairs, Government of Kerala as regards the lie of the respective properties of the petitioner and the respondents and the pathway starting from the western public road and particularly showing the 3 cents of property through which right of way is provided, is appended to this Agreement and the same shall form part of the Agreement. The respondents will not raise any claim against the use of the said poftion of 3 cents through their property as earmarked in the plan appended to this Agreement. The petitioner and his successors-in-interest will not have any other right than the

$ right of user of way through the 3 cents of propefi as earmarked in the above said pfan.

The petitioner has arready given to the respondents an amount of Rs.3 Lakhs (Rupees Three Lakhs onry) in consideration of the right of way given to him by the respondents through the above mentioned 3 cents of propefi of the respondents as mutually agreed upon.

iii) The petitioner and respondents agree that both of them have right to use the said portion of 3 cents as pathway for their access to their respective properties.

The petitioner agrees to o put up boundary stones to separate the 3 cents poftion from the rest of the propery of the respondents and further agrees that the respondents shail have every right to put barbed wire fencing or compound wail separating the 3 cents portion of pathway from their property to protect the sme. The respondents agree notto obstruct or hinder the right of the petitioner on his successors-in-interest to use the 3 cents propefties as pathway to their property.

This shail be done within one month from the date of decree to be passed on the basis of this Compromise petition.

iv) The respondents agree that they wiil give necessary statutory consent to draw erectric rine, water connection etc. to the property of the petitioner without the petitioner obstructing the use of the pathway, as shown in the plan.

v) Both the petitioner and respondents agree that the pathway starting from the western Mathra Junction

- Nedumala Junction Road shourd be kept intact and without any obstruction. The n {/.

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petitioner and respondents agree that the parties are not at liberty to alter the lie and nature of the above said pathway as shown in the plan so as to cause any inconvenience to the other.

vi) The petitioner agrees that he will not raise any claim over any portion of the property of the respondents in any manner in future.

vii) The petitioner and respondents agree that in case of any default o by any party in performing their respective terms of Agreement, the other party shall be at libefi to enforce the same through the process of court.

viii) The petitioner and respondents agree to settle all their dispute arising in the above appeal as mutually agreed upon by them as per the above terms.

ix) The parties hereby agree that they shall bear their respective costs in the entire proceedings.

a Dated this the 27h day of January,}OZL.

Petitioner /Appellant Respondents/ Respondents

b Muraleedharan Pillai Sathyanpiilai SW'

2. Sheela Sathyan *Y

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